ocr: ENVIRODAIA 1.0 - - File Edit Help Agent Orange was a DIOXIN herbicide detoliant] used by the U.S. in the Vietnam War in an operation called Ranch Hand. Doctors in Hanoi says the U.S. sprayed 72 million liters (19 million gallons) of detoliant on more than two million hectares (nearly five million acres) of forests in South Vietnam between 1961 and 1971. Children of North Vietnamese soldiers exposed to HERBICIDES (including Agent Orange) had children born with cleft lips, without noses, with shortened limbs, without eyes, with malformed ears, with club feet, water on the brain, and with part or ...